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Carl Cullinane

@carlcullinane.bsky.social
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Politics, policy, education inequality, cycling, football. Social mobility researcher. Views own etc. If you're wondering whether I'm trying to make a joke then I probably am.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 10h
Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir
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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I bought this in Dallas. Couch to JFK
A 64 page booklet entitled - US Official Physical Fitness Program: A fitness program for all that takes only a few minutes a day. In the top right hand corner is a black and white photo of JFK
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢 At this year's Labour Party Conference we hosted two fantastic panel events, one on education inequality across the UK and one on boosting apprenticeship opportunities for young people. Thank you to all panellists and attendees for two engaging and varied discussions 🧵⤵️
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Excited to be chairing this star studded line up this afternoon in Liverpool!
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We've got some fantastic speakers for our panel events at Labour Party Conference in Liverpool 👏 Tomorrow, for our first event on educational inequality, we'll be joined by @lewisgoodall.com @georgiagould.bsky.social Helena Dollimore MP @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and @carlcullinane.bsky.social⬇️
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨 Labour Party Conference 🚨 Join us at Labour Party Conference for two exciting events! We'll be discussing education inequality across the UK and how we can boost apprenticeship opportunity for young people ⬇️
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Academics spend years developing expertise so we can confidently write "the evidence remains mixed"
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📢Today's PISA results are positive, with England bucking the global downward trend in reading and maths. But it's concerning that 48% of UK students were in schools whose leaders think learning was hindered by a lack of teaching staff. Read our full response⬇️ www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...
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Sutton Trust response to PISA results - The Sutton Trust
Our response to the OECD’s PISA 2025 results.
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The NEET debate has understandably focused on getting young people into work - but there has been much less focus on what happens when they get there. Our new research, out today, finds that first jobs really matter, but that access to the best (with the highest earnings returns) remains unequal -
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Have a spare ticket to @footballcliches.bsky.social live at the Southbank tomorrow if anyone is interested as can no longer go. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/foo...
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Football Cliches: Live | Southbank Centre
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 31/08/2026
🚨New working paper alert!🚨 Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have grown rapidly. Who uses them? Do they improve kids' skills? BU econ PhD student Samuel Nitkin and I provide answers in: "Kumon Up: Private Tutoring Centers and Student Achievement" www.nber.org/papers/w35671 1/?
Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have expanded rapidly in recent decades.
Combining data on business locations, household spending, and district test scores, we study who
uses these centers and how they affect academic skills. Nearly half of tutoring users are from the top
income decile, with Asian and White households five and two times as likely to purchase tutoring as
Black and Hispanic households. A staggered differences-in-differences design shows the opening
of a district's first chain center raises district-wide math and reading scores by 0.02-0.03 standard
deviations, at a much lower cost than public spending typically producing similar gains. Math
effects are largest for White and Asian students, so that center entry widens racial achievement
gaps, though less so in more racially integrated districts. These private investments help their
users, deepen educational inequality, and shape outcomes by which state accountability systems
and families judge schools.
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One of the best ever! The original run had an amazing soundtrack too, albeit a shame it had to be changed.
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HEALTH @health.band · 15/08/2026
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Mostly a picture of stability this morning on #ALevelResultsDay. A/A* grades continue to creep up again as they have since 2022. Main story, as it increasingly is on results days, is London pulling further ahead of other regions.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
How has my eighteen month old started saying six-seven. Not sure whether to be proud of his progress on numbers, or to punish him for being way behind the trend. He's going to start saying "brat summer" next.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
New post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
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Burnham's first mistake
The problem with his education plan
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
📖 Really important research published by CEPEO this week, revealing the persistent link between family income and children’s later earnings for the generation born around 1990. Check it out here ⤵️ econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...
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EconPapers: Intergenerational Income Persistence in the Millennial Generation
By Paul Gregg, Yuyan Jiang, Lindsey Macmillan, Nikki Shure and Gill Wyness; Abstract: This paper provides new evidence on intergenerational income persistence for a recent UK cohort. Using Next Steps,...
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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It's literally this simple 👇
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨 THE NEW CABINET 🚨 Andy Burnham is the new Prime Minister, and he's finalised his cabinet. This new cabinet is less representative than Keir Starmer's first cabinet, which was the most representative – in terms of education backgrounds – ever recorded. Our analysis 🧵👇
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
24% of the new cabinet attended private school, which, while low historically, is up quite a bit from 8% in Starmer's first cabinet. 41% were educated in the north of England, up from 19% of Rishi Sunak's cabinet, and 31% of Starmer's. www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🚨 NEW: Almost half of all top government officials were educated in London and the South East. Our new analysis, which builds on our previous research on Britain's most powerful people, reveals that key decision making positions in society are dominated by southerners ⤵️🧵
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Jo Hutchinson @jojohutchinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My colleague Max Perrott on the incoherence at the heart of the suite of attainment targets, and how they can drive the wrong responses when pursued without nuance in a landscape of broken services www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
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How the GLD target could hide a growing early years divide
The early years disadvantage gap is at its widest since 2014, research shows, raising questions about whose progress getting 75 per cent of children to a good level of development will rely on
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Longer paternity leave benefits the whole family. Nice bit of qualitative research supported by a @britishacademy.bsky.social small research grant www.thetimes.com/article/d547... (underlying paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)
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Longer paternity leave benefits the whole family, study finds
Only 2 per cent of working fathers share leave entitlements, but researchers say a spell of ‘solo dadding’ keeps men more involved in running the household
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
White working class young people have the lowest attainment of any group. And our new rankings shows how access to opportunity differs for these young people across the country. We find that city areas tend to have a lower ranking, most notably Newcastle, Brighton, and Leeds, among others.
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ahead of next week's launch of the Inquiry on White Working Class Educational Outcomes, have written a short piece here.
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Good piece on our research in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/pove...
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It’s our poorest white girls who are truly being ‘left behind’
A new report by the Sutton Trust makes clear that, despite widespread focus on white working-class boys, girls are in an escalating crisis
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Our report today on how opportunity is shaped by socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity and place is accompanied by a wealth of data resources. From a map of how every constituency does for white working class pupils, to an interactive data story: www.suttontrust.com/crossing-pat...
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🚨 Girls, and certain ethnic groups, perform strongly at school but underachieve in the labour market. Our new research shows how geography, gender, and ethnicity all impact opportunities for disadvantaged young people, with big variations across England ⬇️
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our one year old is very much like an AI chatbot. If he doesn't know what something is called, then he'll say something incomprehensible rather than admit he doesn't know.
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Great to speak at this morning's event on our recent report on the School-Based Nursery programme - a huge thank you to the rest of the panel for a great discussion. @smfthinktank.bsky.social @suttontrust.bsky.social, @carlcullinane.bsky.social @larry-turner.bsky.social @nuffieldfoundation.org
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Great to see our latest research on school-based nurseries covered on BBC Breakfast by Education Reporter Vanessa Clarke at the weekend 📺
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Back in London from Scotland
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Do The Right Thing - A Spike Lee Joint
ALT: Do The Right Thing - A Spike Lee Joint
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Very pleased to be publishing our major new study on the government's school-based nursery expansion this morning. Big thanks to @eleanorire.bsky.social and @nuffieldfoundation.org for their support!
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🚨 NEW: There is a ‘happiness gap’ between people born into different social classes, we have found. Our research with Co-op finds that wellbeing remains closely tied to the social status you’re born into, but social mobility helps to close most of this gap ⬇️🧵
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FFT Education Datalab @fftedudatalab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
NEW: What genetics can (and can’t) tell us about educational inequality - with John Jerrim Recent research allows us to ask new questions about how children differ in their educational development and what this does – and does not - mean for schools. vist.ly/536y7
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What genetics can (and can’t) tell us about educational inequality - FFT Education Datalab
Recent research allows us to ask new questions about how children differ in their educational development and what this does – and does not - mean for schools.
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Interesting piece on giving additional early education support to children with SEND. www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...
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Why early years support must be based on need, not parental employment - Nursery World
The BRIDGE Project shows how targeted provision for children with SEND can support children and families, says Dr June O'Sullivan, CEO of the London Early Years
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As part of our Fair Admissions Hub launch today we have created an interactive Pupil Premium Admissions simulator. Describe your applicant pool, set your admissions criteria and test the impact of different priority policies on the intake. www.suttontrust.com/pupil-premiu...
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
An amazing set of resources for teachers & leaders looking to become more inclusive. Videos, podcasts, case studies, an online learning module, and two interactive tools allowing schools to compare their intake to their locality, as well as simulate the impact of different admissions policy changes.
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨 NEW: Schools are continuing to cut back on staff, subjects, and SEND support, we have found. Our new research reveals a worrying picture for schools, with essential staff and activities being cut to manage tight budgets ⬇️🧵
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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
1 Successive governments have held up apprenticeships as a valid 16+ choice But specialist advisers SSAC have uncovered how a mismatch with benefits has evolved It puts big barriers in the way of young people taking up the best training for them My blog explains ssac.blog.gov.uk/2026/04/23/t...
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“Genes Linked to Educational Attainment & Adult SES Across Birth Cohorts”: @hdobewall.bsky.social, @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social et al. examine whether genetic endowment for high education is assoc. with subsequent socioeconomic outcomes. @invest-flagship.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Great opportunity for year 12 students to do work experience at the House of Lords. Apply by 22 April www.parliament.uk/business/new...
Applications open for Lords Social Mobility
Work Experience
Programme
9 April 2026
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sad to see
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Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Now is the winter of our discount eggs
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Online hostility is predicted by economic & political inequality Inequality breeds online hostility because people crave status in unequal societies and status-seekers constitute the main perpetrators of hostility in political settings, whether online or offline. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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FFT Education Datalab @fftedudatalab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
NEW: 10 key findings about the outcomes of initially high-achieving children from disadvantaged backgrounds - with John Jerrim and Maria Palma Carvajal This post brings together some of the “greatest hits” from across this research project. ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2026/04/10-k...
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10 key findings about the outcomes of initially high-achieving children from disadvantaged backgrounds - FFT Education Datalab
This post brings together some of the “greatest hits” from across the project, highlighting a selection of the findings that stood out most over the course of the research.
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Smart Thinking @smartthinking.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A brilliant internship opportunity at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk is open for applications! Join the IfG's year-long research programme and get the chance to carry out research, conduct interviews, run data analysis and more across their different teams! Apply now: bit.ly/47Duy3f
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 29/03/2026
Graduates who grew up in deep poverty still earn £2,800 less than their peers 10 years on, even if they earn the same degree, and do the same job in the same firm. Read 'The long shadow' here 👉 buff.ly/5VfX2Fi
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